Tag: cosmos

Two independent teams of astronomers have uncovered convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around an infant star known as HD 163296. Using a new planet-finding strategy, the astronomers identified three discrete disturbances in a young star’s gas-filled disk: the strongest evidence yet that newly formed planets are

In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places scientists have considered is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond our Sun.A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides

It’s one thing to look for life elsewhere in the universe. But why stop there? What about life in all those parallel universes that theoretical physicists like to talk about? A recent paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that some of that real estate might

Both NASA and ESA space missions have just released new videos plotting the orbits of tens of thousands of asteroids (and comets) orbiting our sun.The study of asteroids has come a long way in recent decades, especially since astronomers realized that Earth is more or less at the center of

A new virtual-reality (VR) experience promises to have you zooming around the cosmos as you look at the precise locations of planets, moons and stars in the solar system and its nearby neighborhood.The VR experience, called "Overview," was released for the HTC Vive Thursday (March 1). The regular price is

A new map of the universe has been unveiled by scientists, revealing the last seven billion years of the history of the cosmos.The results of the Dark Energy Survey show how dark matter is distributed across the galaxy. Until now, scientists used models to show where it fell. These models are

French scientists have run computer simulations about the formation of Venus that suggest that “Earth’s Twin” once had a thin ocean of water shortly after it formed.The researchers with the Université Paris-Saclay ran the complex simulation and published their findings in the Journal of Geophysical Research. While today Venus is a barren ball

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Our Solar System is littered with chunks of space rocks that whizz around in different orbits and varying speeds – and it’s no big deal until one of those rocks turns out to be on a nasty unexpected trajectory and smashes into Earth.It’s actually a pretty unlikely apocalypse scenario, but

In what would be a pretty major discovery, astronomers say they may have found the first moon beyond the Solar System – known as an exomoon.The potential discovery is 4,000 light-years away around a star called Kepler-1625. It was made using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope by three astronomers, Alex Teachey

A key sign of a recession is when the market can't respond to greater supplies of raw materials with increased demand. Long before this century's Great Recession the first galaxies in the Universe experienced a Great Galactic Recession lasting over a billion years.In work recently published in the Monthly Notices

Supercomputer simulations suggest much of the matter in the Milky Way may have come from other galaxies by a process of ‘intergalactic transfer’
It seems natural to assume that the matter from which the Milky Way is made was formed within the galaxy itself, but a series of new supercomputer simulations

THE smallest ever spacecraft have been successfully put into orbit in what may be the first step towards visiting our nearest star — Proxima Centauri.
THE smallest ever spacecraft have been put into orbit in what may be the first step towards the stars.
Breakthrough Starshot is a plan to send man-made probes